The problem has to be related to the disks. If I can watch SD on my
x-box front-end, your box is grotesquely overpowered wrt CPU and
memory.
Run vmstat 1 and iostat 1 while the problem is happening and look for
high swap in and out, and/or high disk activity on the disk with your
database.
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